Scotland On Rails Wrapup

This isn't a full wrapup, but I wanted to at least post code and slides from my talk. Here are the slides. If you're going to be at goruco at the end of this month, no peeking! In part of my talk I presented a Twitter friend recommender. It comes in two files:

twitter-friend-getter.rb and twitter-recommender.rb

If you run it against someone that has more than 69 friends, you'll have problems because of Twitter's API request limitations. Keep in mind that it's just a one off script that I used as an example for this talk. Feel free to do with it whatever you'd like.

The conference was a lot of fun. I wish I had a little more time to check out Scotland and also to hang out with the other speakers. I was busy beating my slides and code examples into shape until Saturday morning. I did get a chance to meet a bunch of smart people and put faces to some online names.

Alan, Paul, Abdel, and Graeme, thanks for organizing the event. Alan, no worries on the confusion Saturday night. You were super busy and I didn't make a point of trying to introduce myself and hang out earlier in the conference (something I regret). I think everything went very smoothly. My only issue was that I would prefer lunch a little earlier in the day (12 instead of 1).

The talks and overall quality of the conference were great. I always like to pick one thing as a primary take away from the technical content of a conference. From SoR I would say it's jRuby. By the looks of it, it's an immediate replacement for MRI. I'll be spending some time with it over the next few weeks, but if it's as good as it looks it will be what powers Tahiti.

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Comments

[Gwyn Morfey]

I'm with you on jRuby; the glassfish server looks like exactly what I'm after. I'd be interested in hearing your experiences with it.

[Abdel A Saleh]

Glad you enjoyed the conference Paul. I think your session was a big hit. I'm glad I got to check it out.

I think we're all busy checking out JRuby - it looks really good.

[Piers Cawley]

Hi, during the talk you mentioned that you'd managed to get one or another of the big maths packages built on OS X and that you might write it up somewhere. Do you have any info on this yet?